Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
²     by the mouth of babes and infants,
thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes,
    to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
    the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
⁴ what is man that thou art mindful of him,
    and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

⁵ Yet thou hast made him little less than God,
    and dost crown him with glory and honor.
⁶ Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;
    thou hast put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the sea.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is thy name in all the earth!

²² “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
    or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
²³ which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
    for the day of battle and war?
²⁴ What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
    or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

²⁵ “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain,
    and a way for the thunderbolt,
²⁶ to bring rain on a land where no man is,
    on the desert in which there is no man;
²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
    and to make the ground put forth grass?

²⁸ “Has the rain a father,
    or who has begotten the drops of dew?
²⁹ From whose womb did the ice come forth,
    and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
³⁰ The waters become hard like stone,
    and the face of the deep is frozen.

³¹ “Can you bind the chains of the Plei′ades,
    or loose the cords of Orion?
³² Can you lead forth the Maz′zaroth in their season,
    or can you guide the Bear with its children?
³³ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
    Can you establish their rule on the earth?

³⁴ “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
    that a flood of waters may cover you?
³⁵ Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go
    and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the clouds,^[a]
    or given understanding to the mists?^[b]
37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
    Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
³⁸ when the dust runs into a mass
    and the clods cleave fast together?